Kelti Center
Yao, Kris; Artech Architects
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Alternative Title
克緹辦公大樓
Date
2009Description
Detail, looking up at "crystal-like volumes" of east facade; Artech Architects was founded by Kris Yao in 1985, and has multiple offices in Taipei and Shanghai. Located in downtown Taipei, the 19-story (244 ft. high) Kelti Center is a complex that houses corporate offices, an event hall (13.5 m high) on the top floor and commercial spaces on the lower levels. Adopting the existing narrow rectangular form from the site with an east-west orientation, the building is set back from the street on the west side, enabling space for a generous open plaza with wide platform stairs. The architects describe it as a "series of crystal-like volumes packed inside a portal frame, leaving gaps of spaces penetrating the building". Source: ArchDaily; http://www.archdaily.com/ (accessed 8/17/2015)
Type of Work
mixed-use developmentSubject
architecture, business, commerce and trade, contemporary (1960 to present), Twenty-first century
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